Warren Adler is a world-renowned novelist, short story writer and playwright. His 32 novels and story collections have been translated into more than 25 languages and two of his novels, The War of the Roses with Michael Douglas and Random Hearts with Harrison Ford, have been made into enormously popular movies, shown continually throughout the world.
The War of the Roses has reached classic iconic status and has entered the nomenclature as a legal definition of a contentious divorce. It has been adapted by Mr. Adler as a play that has been produced in numerous countries to critical acclaim. It is currently under consideration for a Broadway musical.
Three short stories from his acclaimed collection The Sunset Gang have been adapted as a trilogy and shown repeatedly on the Public Television network.
He has sold or optioned a dozen of books to films and his work is sought after for film adaptation projects.
Mr. Adler’s blogs appear regularly in the Huffington Post and other sites throughout the world and his short stories appear in numerous anthologies.
His two short story collections, New York Echoes 1 and New York Echoes 2 have been acclaimed for their insight into the characters and depiction of commentary life in New York City.
Mr. Adler is a pioneer in electronic publishing, having introduced the first digital reader in the world produced by SONY at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics show in 2007. He was one of the first authors to acquire his complete backlist and to convert his entire library to digital publishing formats. His books can be found on every digital platform. He continues to write works of the imagination and is represented by ICM.
As a novelist, Mr. Adler’s themes deal primarily with intimate human relationships—the mysterious nature of love and attraction, the fragile relationships between husbands and wives and parents and children, the corrupting power of money, the aging process and how families cling together when challenged by the outside world. Readers and reviewers have cited his books for their insight and wisdom in presenting and deciphering the complexities of contemporary life.
Mr. Adler has been sponsoring the Warren Adler Short Story contest since 2005 which awards cash prizes to winners from submissions around the world.
A product of the New York public school system, Mr. Adler graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School and New York University, where he majored in English literature. In 2009, he was honored by being chosen “Alumni of the Year” at NYU’s College of Arts and Science. Inspired by his freshman English Professor Don Wolfe, Mr. Adler went on to study creative writing with Dr. Wolfe when he taught at the New School. He has taught novel writing honors seminars at NYU.
Inspired by his freshman English Professor Don Wolfe, Mr. Adler went on to study creative writing with Dr. Wolfe when he taught at the New School. He also studied under Dr. Charles Glicksburg at the New School.
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Among his classmates were Mario Puzo, William Styron and many other talented writers. Two collections of short stories American Vanguard and Which Grain Will Grow were published by Doubleday and represented a showcase of many young emerging authors, who like Warren Adler, won both popular and critical acclaim.
“I wanted to be a novelist since I was fifteen years old,” he says. “Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.”
After graduating from New York University with a degree in English literature, Mr. Adler worked for the New York Daily News before becoming Editor of the Queens Post, a prize winning weekly newspaper on Long Island. His column Pepper on the Side became a staple of a number of newspapers in the country.
During the Korean War, after basic training he was recruited by Armed Forces Press Service to serve in the Pentagon as the only Washington Correspondent for the service. His Washington by-line went all over the world and was published in every publication put out by the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard.
Prior to his success as a novelist, Mr. Adler had a distinguished business career. He has owned four radio stations and a TV station, has run his own advertising and public relations agency in Washington, D.C. and was one of the founders with his wife Sonia and son David of the Washington Dossier magazine.
When his first novel was published in 1974, he became a full time novelist.
Today, when not writing, Mr. Adler lectures on creative writing, motion picture adaptation and the future of Electronic Books. He is the founder of the Jackson Hole Writer’s Conference and has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Jackson Hole Public Library. He is married to the former Sonia Kline, a magazine editor. He has three sons, David, Jonathan and Michael and four grandchildren and lives in New York City.
Contacting Mr. Adler:
- By email at wadler@WarrenAdler.com.
- For publishing and business issues: 300 East 56th Street, NY, NY 10022
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Mr. Adler is the author of 30 books including novels such as 